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Water Intake Guidelines

Pretty much everybody has heard that their body is over 60% water.

Thus, if you weigh 150 lb. (68 kg) then 90 lb. (41 kg) of you is water. To be
more specific, our water content varies with age and sex.

• 45% to 50% of body weight in females is water.

• 50% to 60% of body water in males is water (males generally have
higher amounts of lean mass)

Why don’t you hear a lot of sloshing when you walk around with all that

water? Well, even though water is in your blood and other bodily fluids, a
lot of that body water is in your cells or attached to molecules like proteins

and carbohydrates.

Water does seven main things in our bodies:

• transporting

• dissolving

• cleaning

• reacting

• padding

• regulating temperature

If we aren’t taking in as much fluids as we are losing, an imbalance
occurs, and dehydration can develop. The severity of dehydration can be
measured by weight loss as a percentage of the normal body weight. If you

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